ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS — Court-ordered mediation in a suit looking to block LG Electronics from building a new 143-foot office over the Palisades ended without an agreement Friday, the company said in a statement.

That news comes just a week after four former New Jersey governors wrote to the Korean electronics giant asking them to reconsider their plans for the tower, which would jut several stories above the treeline along the long-protected cliffs.

"We have no complaints with the legal process, and we thank the mediator for his efforts," the company said Friday.

LG officials did not outline why talks fell through between the company and the other parties in the suit — a coalition of environmental groups and local residents concerned about the impact of the project on the landscape.

"We remain confident in the future of the LG building project, which will be a showcase of environmentally friendly design and will create hundreds of short- and long-term jobs," the statement reads. "LG sincerely appreciates the strong support that this $300 million project has received from residents, workers and community groups."

Opponents of the project say the building's height is not necessary, given the size of the 27-acre site on which it will be built — a now-vacant property formerly used by CitiGroup, which left the town a few years ago.

"We are concerned that this tower would not only interrupt the historic, natural vista enjoyed by millions, but would also set a precedent for greater building
heights stretching northward along these iconic cliffs, eroding the unique American landmark of the Palisades," the governors — Democrats James Florio and Brendan Byrne and Republicans Thomas Kean and Christine Todd Whitman — wrote in the letter.

An LG spokesman, John Taylor, told NJ.com last week that the parties in the suit had agreed not to discuss the case with the media pending the outcome of mediation. But the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, an environmental group not named in the suit, distributed the letter from the former New Jersey governors — a move Taylor said was not in the "spirit of that agreement."

"[W]e appreciate the endorsement from government officials who hold office now, have knowledge of all the facts surrounding the project and today have real responsibility for jobs, taxes, and the economic and environmental welfare of New Jersey," LG officials wrote in their statement today.